Help! Anyone with a toddler who poos too much.....because she wants the reward?

[EachPeachPearMum]

Gah- potty training is going really well. 4 weeks now, only a couple of accidents in first couple of days- dry ever since. We're very proud of her.
BUT every time she goes to the loo or sits on the potty, she strains to do a poo- whether she needs one or not!
We haven't actually given her any rewards after the first week, to try and discourage this, but that hasn't stopped her trying to do one every time. (we used stickers btw, not sweets)

The problem with this is her little bottom is very sore- from straining, and so many poos I think. Each night (we're not doing nighttime yet) when I put her nappy on, she is having to have cream on, poor thing.

We have tried telling her not to, and explaining that she'll get a sore bottom, but it does nothing.

Any suggestions?

(She is 2.3 btw, and seems to comprehend most of what we say to her.)

can only say best of luck - we have a similar problem

bump... pretty please

Stopping the reward is probably a good thing, the only other thing I can think to suggest is let her come with you to the bathroom for a couple of days and explain that you don't need to do a poo everytime - only when your bottom tells you it needs to. Or some such! I never get to go to the loo on my own and when I had a few problems with DS1 I had to convince DH to let him go along too, so he had another role model.
Or reverse the reward for a while - a treat for NOT doing a poo...(though I can see the possibility of that being a continuing cycle of problems )
HTH

lol- she comes to the loo with me every time I use it- always has.

Dd did this, serves me right for giving her a chocolate for every poo in the toilet. Every time she went for a wee she'd start straining away, eyes popping, grunting "I'm going to get a chocolate for THIS one".

Anyway, I said she'd get a treat at the end of the day if her poos were in the toilet instead of after each one and she seemed fine with that, mercifully.